- Not to far away in the Hokage's office -

"You said that she wouldn't ever be having these memories!" One figure cried out.

"Now now, from what I've been told, you know that she was very young when she came to us! The Third did what he could at the time!" The figure behind the desk said.

"She was still four years old at the time! A four year old has many memories!" The first figure called out again.

"Iruka! Calm down!" Said a third figure, "At the time, yes she was four years old, but the kind of jutsu, you wanted to use would have killed her weak body!"

"But it was her parents dying wish! They asked that she never knows the life she came from, that she never chases after a life that would have her killed Kakashi!" Iruka shouted back at the third figure.

"BOTH OF YOU! Calm down!" The figure behind the desk said, "Now we either get along and work out what we're going to do about this, or you can leave and watch her get killed."

"Tsunade, we need to stop her from following the memories of the blue haired girl." Iruka said, Kakashi nodded in agreement.

"You keep mentioning this blue haired girl, who is she?" Tsunade standing up.

"Konan. Of the Akatsuki." Kakashi said in sharply.

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Anii was sitting by the lake watching her origami fish and butterflies play among the reds.

"Do you mind if I join you?" A voice from behind her said. She turned around to see Sasuke drop a pack by his feet.

"What is this?" She said suspiciously eyeing off the pack.

"I asked if I can come along on your journey, to find out who this girl is." Sasuke said taking a seat next to her.

Anii stared at him for a long time before saying anything, "Why?"

"Because if I was in the same predicament as you, I reckon you'd offer your help." Sasuke said taking a book out of the bag.

"You are more or less in the same predicament as me. And you wont let anyone help, what makes this so much different?" Anii said looking at the book.

"Revenge and chasing memories are very different!" Sasuke said defensively, "Look! Do you want my help or not!"

"Yes, I do want your help. But only if you accept my help if you need it later on." Anii said watching Sasuke carefully.

"Fine." He muttered.

There was a silence between the two friends before Sasuke spoke up, "I found this in the library... Well Sakura did."

"What is it?" Anii asked, growing in curiosity.

"Well, the three of us, Naruto, myself and Sakura did some thinking." Sasuke started.

"You mean you told them everything?" Anii said shaking her head.

"Not quite, but once you left they were on my case so fast. I told them the basic details." Sasuke continued, "Anyway, we did some brainstorming about the place. When Sakura ran off to find this book." He said passing it to Anii.

Her fingers traced the fine letters of the title, 'Amegakure - Rain Country'

"What is it?" She said not sure if she wanted to open the book or not.

"It's the history of Amegakure." Sasuke said watching her trace the letters again.

"I can see that, but why?" Anii said slowly opening the book.

"I'll give you the same rundown that Sakura gave me. Amegakure is plagued by war, and it rains a lot. As you could have guessed by rain country." Sasuke said watching Anii look away from the book.

After a pause, "So you think this is the place then?"

"It sounds the most likely. Have a look at some of the pictures, maybe that will help."

Anii nodded and flipped through the book until she found so pictures. There were many of war, with captions of 'civil war' and 'the battle between these countries' and things like that. She kept turning pages until she found one showing the Hidden Rain Village in the past twenty years, with tall industrial buildings. She paused on the picture and shut her eyes.

After a moment or two of silence, and some heavy breathing, Anii opened her eyes.

"Are you okay Anii?" Sasuke said looking down at the picture.

"This is it. I'm sure of it. I mean, I could just be substituting this for what I can see if my memories, but now that I've seen this, it seems so much clearer." She said shaking her head.

"I guess that means we're off to the Hidden Rain Village then." Sasuke said with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, but that's saying this girl is still there. And who knows what she looks like now! That's saying she's still alive, with all the wars... Who knows?" Anii said looking back down at the picture.

Sasuke nodded, "I know. But maybe if we go there, someone might know who your talking about."

"Yeah!" Cried out a bush behind them.

"Naruto you fool! You were meant to be quiet!" Called out someone else from the bush.

"Sakura, Naruto you can come out. She's known you were there the whole time." Sasuke said shaking his head.

Naruto and Sakura sheepishly dragged themselves from the bushes, slightly disappointed that they weren't able to hide themselves for longer.

"So I guess you guys want to come along as well." Anii said with a sigh, the more people that tagged along on this journey, the harder and more dangerous it was going to get.

"Yes we do." Naruto cried out enthusiastically.

"You might get killed, or badly injured." Anii replied trying to talk them out of it.

"Oh... Um..." Sakura stuttered.

"Come on Sakura! We can do it! We're a team!" Naruto said slapping her over the back.

A smile escaped Anii's mouth when she realised how serious they were all about coming with her. It meant that she didn't have to do the journey alone, and for that she was very grateful.

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Ever since she could remember, Anii was afraid of being by herself. She didn't know if there was ever any real reason for this, she just left it to something deep down within her subconscious. As back at her home in Konoha, she had a loving mother and father, and they were who she called family. She didn't know any different. At a young age, she decided she must have been adopted, as she looked nothing like her parents, but sometimes that happens. She'd never questioned or asked, because she loved the people she called her parents. But it was always there in the back of her mind, even if she didn't know if it was true or not.

Sometimes she wanted to ask, but never had the courage, she didn't want to hurt their feelings, by saying that she wanted to meet her real parents, or find out where she really came from.

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